Entered Heuristics in Windows search Characters from SP mods that I played came up that were never in the multiplayer game. I have everything documented. I dont feel too bad a little blown away by the (lack of) real evidence.

In what search field? Where? If you googled 'heuristics' and some old files you have on your hard drive came up that would freak me the hell out and I'd probably swear off the internet. Are you saying you turned on heuristics and your antivirus software flagged your old files (that you know are clean) as viruses?

You should know that some malware alters existing files instead of making new ones. hope you have a backup, because you need to get rid of the infected one.

Pfft. The kernel is so much better. Havent lost a copy of Windows in 4 years . Prons are they any relationship to Prawns?

Is that the name of the thing on front of the drills that drill subway-sized mine tunnels? That's the visual I get.

No its when insurmounting evidence points to anothers tomfoolery. When the screw comes loose all thats left is wasted time. Even if well investigated and worth a couple hours. Reran my malware its all good no remnants. Other programs out there to check these things and follow the file paths. Had a similar one that I removed that I mentioned to kbroke the file properties were written in Russian (greek). This is an offshoot of that or they have a lock on my pc from past visits to prawn or vasari sponsored websites.

So, you're agreeing that the malware/virus/trojan/whatever is coincidental?

dgdgs or whatever the name of the file is. It is the same thing as the Russian file. My main firewall confirmed that when researching the file via the firewall. The other 6(?). There was only a record of 2 of them I deleted the firewall logs adter browsing them today. Im betting they are related to the prons. Not sure dont care. They really are just a nuisance. pc runs same as ever. Nothing like a fresh install of windows to improve performance and to remove programs not used anymore if Im wrong the backup drive has the same programs so its no good anyway. Work pc is not compromised.

This sounds like a bad plan and probably the cause of your miscommunications

No. There are no miscommunications. Jake should not ask people to 1v1 players to test whether he can do something to the game that other people cannot. If you think that you shouldnt run antivirus after any strange communications on the internet and are a pc tech, then miscommunications are not mine. (4 year old "heuristic" files do not suddenly pop up as malware after dozens and dozens of scans.)

[quote who="Mr_Book" reply="18" id="3308074"]Was in a 5v5 last night and ended up next to JakeMac (opposite teams). We go back and forth for a while but he seems to always be outbuilding me and ends up winning. Our teams were fairly even and I don't know how much feed he was getting (it seemed like a LOT the way he is spamming fleet). Immediately upon quitting the game I MD'd (haven't seen one of those in a while, in fact the only I've seen is the one JakeMac caused on purpose in his earlier "tests"). I decided to go back and watch the game to see where I went wrong, but when I loaded the recording it was 1 hour and 13 minutes of.... nothing. Each player sat at their HW with nothing building but income being collected for the entire 1:13:00.